Remember when…
So long NZ! This small snapshot only represents a tiny portion of the friends I’ve made through drifting and I can’t say thanks enough. I’m off to Sydney on Monday to chase a dream. I’ll still shoot drifting from Australia but I know it wont be the same.
Hope you’ve all had as much fun as I’ve had!
Matt
Waterproof? Pfft… My gear needs to be LIFEPROOF
Dude, I was so totally there before you were famous!
Matt
Ain’t no Sunshine
Hugo’s Toyota Corolla that I shot a while back when it was Honda powered. I went for a super gloomy edit – You dig?
Matt
Getting Crazy with Colour Adjustment Curves
There are so many damn ways to enhance colour within an image using Photoshop that it’s easy to get overwhelmed. And depending on the result you are after any number of several small functions can alter the colour in your finished product. So you ask, which one is best?
Well this isn’t the best, or the most common, but here is a slightly different method that I’ve used from time to time to generate a slightly different kind of look to the finished photo – Similar to the old C’s Garage Corolla that is pictured above. It creates more of a summer-ish image, with semi-vintage tones. This Technique works well with your standard RGB colours, so if you have summer shots that could do with a little life give this a crack!
Lets fire up Photoshop and have a look at what colour correction with adjustment curves is all about.
Rouge!
Impact style shot. Super tight on the subject with the red turned all the way up to eleven!
Matt
Sharpening 101 – Razor sharp images
Right, so this is something that I’ve wanted to do for a while now. I’ve wanted to give the people who read my blog a few basic bits that I’ve picked up during my time behind the camera and hopefully you learn something or look at an image in a different way!
One of the most basic things you can do to a unedited image, especially if it’s going to the web or print is sharpening. There are a million different ways to go about sharpening an image all with different techniques and all of which result in a different style – But here is the technique I use the most. It works with documentary style shots and with some of the more artistic style ones – So it’s pretty versatile.
First things first. The image above is of Max’s lovely Nissan S13 Silvia which I shot during a D1NZ round last year which we will be using as a base to work from. I’ll include a link to the RAW file so you guys can have a play around.
Old Look
Mad Mike’s previous livery.
Matt
Moody Interior shots
I’ve always been a fan of moody interior shots – Shots with lots of black, blues and other moody tones can really create a cool feel.
Matt
Ghost Chups
I’m really enjoying editing old photos that have been sitting on my PC and I’m finding it strangely therapeutic as I muck around with different tones – Here’s one that I took during my time in Sydney and I’ve edited it in a cinematic dodgy back-alley kind of way. Casey and Dino did a rad full feature on it and its worth checking out.
Matt
Two Unrelated Pictures
Here is a very tidy Toyota Altezza that I shot with the Speedhunters team in Sydney. This thing was immaculate and definitely a labor of love for the owner. As it turns out, Altezza’s are quite rare in Aussie so seeing such a tidy example on the streets definitely turned heads.
Anyway, I tried for more of a refined/commercial style edit of the image. Full screen it and let me know if you dig it.
And the second shot is of me. Overlooking some mountains like a god. Except more of a IT nerd, geek-like god…
Matt
